What IS Gauntlet's Race Mod?Gauntlet's Race Mod is the premier custom race mod for Galactic Civilizations 3 and also provides an array of additional content to improve your game experience. There are versions of GRM for both Crusade and non-Crusade, however the non-Crusade version will generally go unsupported.

Replaces the Anomalies and greatly increases their diversity and coolness!Replaces all Mercenaries from the BazaarReplaces the Mines and Bazaar modelsReplaces the Pirate models and grants them a few starting ships!Adds additional Abilities!Adds additional Starting Ship Combos!

KNOWN ISSUES and USE1) If you use this mod for your own ships/races/etc. a brief credit to this mod is appreciated.

2) Turn ship-trails off, I use engines as parts in turrets and hulls, it can be distracting.

3) If you experience performance issues, it is most likely the result of the heavy use of animations in any/all of my ship models, or otherwise GC3's general issues. If you experience issues, I recommend either playing with less total races, less races utilizing the ship sets, or otherwise upgrading your PC.

4) Under no circumstances may you upload any of these ship designs or factions to Steam.

THANK YOUPlease reach out and report any glitches/bugs, any ships with clipping or other issues. Also it would be great, if you end up adding to the designs using the custom components, for you to share them with the community! Please credit the mod if you do!

Special thanks to: Horemvore for his helpful attitude and Diplomacy UI mod!R3bel02 for one of his logos. JP193 for submitting a design via the contest.

My games are not saving when I make new ship designs and or templates. It has been happening for quite awhile now. Last game I stopped making designs and played it till the end. I think this only happens when playing GRM, not entirely sure. Game saves are fine when I don't make new designs. Also the ship yard gets pretty jumbled when I make a Privateer. Any ideas? Thanks.

Hey gauntlet, just noticed a few bugs and i am not sure if they are game related (3.04) or related to your mods. I am running 8.5 full. Before I post to the main feedback thread i wanted to check with you:

The ability to build multiple "unique" buildings is back. I now have three import/export centers and central banks on my main finance planet for example.

The Thalan are using the Galactic president ship as an exploration ship. It just visited my area from the other side of the map.

Speaking of which the Thalan have a Star federation, I am on turn 62. A bit early m thinks especially with tech trading and brokering turned off. Did you speed up tech research?

Already got all the ones that give new parts (plus Crusade and Mercenary expansions), the only ones I miss are Altarian Prophecies, Snathi and the Mech Parts, so I don't think (at least I didn't see that part in the promotional material, see https://www.stardock.com/galciv3/altarianprophecydlc/gc3_apddlc_Classic_Parts.png).

1) I've not had any serious issues with Intrigue and GRM 8.5, seemingly 8.5 is working without issue with the current Crusade version.

2) Minor issues could be present, like issues with certain racial traits functionality or the like... hard to test everything, but nothing "crash-worthy".

3) No idea how the AI handles switching governments.

4) We'll see about another update... its been hard to get into the ship-building chair so to speak. I'm not very happy with my latest work, but I need to finish the current shipset even-so. Meanwhile, the inexorable and terrifying march of life continues with jobs, mother-in-law movings, family events, puppy rearing, and the like.

Oh and I kinda fell in love with Fallout 4 settlement crafting again (Sim Settlements you wonderful mod you!) because of the Fallout 76 announcement.

But eventually friends. Eventually. If the mod is proven incompatible with a GC version (Proven.) rest assured I'll update it.

Also just FYI if you support me via Patreon, rest assured you are only charged when I release content, not auto-monthly, for this very reason.

In the process of trying to use GRM and UCP (Horems Mod) together. I have not been entirely successful. Im hoping I can use your factions and ships with some of Horems game improvements. I have tried adding GRM to UCP and UCP to GRM with some deletions per Horem.

However, I am not sure which folders to add certain things to. For example, when I add the GRM to UCP I have to put the files in UCP_Enhanced or some of the races do not appear , the ones that use your abilities such as Exterminator. I don't understand what the folder Core is for since I have to put things in the Enhanced folder. But that was from my effort to add GRM to UCP.

I'm not sure if what I am attempting to do is possible. I come up with negative values for race abilities but it does not seem to affect play. I would still like to add abilities to the other races which are limited to 2 choices instead of 4 as in GRM

I need your races and abilities but I also would like Horems maps and AI improvements. I can dispense with the stars of trek.

**Do you think you could give it a try and tell me what you find out ? Or what is possible ?

I will continue to make efforts but I have a lack of understanding of how the Mods actually work (nuts and bolts) . So I am just guessing. I have changed some of the xml's with some success. My main goal is to keep Horems AI and gameplay improvements along with a few of yours. Especially your races and ships(the easy part is the ships since I just add those to designs).

As a side note, do you think the Mercenaries are strong enough in GRM ? The prices are steep sometimes and the stats of some of the ships are a little lean . What do you say ? I bought a 3000 bc ship that had only 16 total attack(or close) , however it did say i would get 50 hitpoints at the end of the battle, but i did not see the hitpoints increase. were they supposed to ?